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To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.
What does 100 Rotten Tomatoes mean? ›
If 60% of reviews are positive, the movie is given a “Fresh” status, but if positive reviews fall below that benchmark, it is deemed “Rotten.” A popular piece of media will typically fall between the 70-90% range, but rarely, a project will receive a 100% score. This means every last review from critics was positive.
What do the Rotten Tomatoes symbols mean? ›
When at least 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, it is considered Fresh and a red tomato is displayed. Rotten score. When less than 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, it is considered Rotten and a green splat is displayed.
What does the popcorn mean on movie ratings? ›
2. Popcorn symbol: On the other hand, if you come across a popcorn bucket icon, it signifies that the movie has received a positive audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Similar to the tomato rating, the percentage displayed with the popcorn symbol indicates the proportion of favorable audience reviews for the movie.
Is 99% Rotten Tomatoes good? ›
The 99% Club: You'll find it, way past 98% on the Tomatometer, but just before 100%. Inside, a coterie of cinema's practically-finest, movies promising an experience beyond most others – movies that are almost perfect.
Is a 97% good on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
So when a movie such as “Black Panther” gets a certified “fresh” 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, we interpret it as a film that is near perfection, while a film such as last year's “The Emoji Movie” that lands around 9 percent, must be a steaming pile of garbage.
Is it good to have 0 Rotten Tomatoes? ›
On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that every surveyed critic considered bad have a 0% rating.
What is the longest film of all time? ›
The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV.
What is the most highly rated movie of all time? ›
IMDb Top 250 Movies
- The Shawshank Redemption. 19942h 22mR. 9.3 (2.9M) Rate.
- The Godfather. 19722h 55mR. ...
- The Dark Knight. 20082h 32mPG-13. ...
- The Godfather Part II. 19743h 22mR. ...
- 12 Angry Men. 19571h 36mApproved. ...
- Schindler's List. 19933h 15mR. ...
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. 20033h 21mPG-13. ...
- Pulp Fiction. 19942h 34mR.
What is spilled popcorn? ›
The spilled popcorn container means audiences didn't find the movie appealing.
In 2011, Warner Bros. acquired Rotten Tomatoes.
How do Rotten Tomatoes make money? ›
Rotten Tomatoes is now owned by Fandango Media, and it uses Fandango's movie ticket purchase system so that users can purchase movie tickets directly from its site. So, some of Rotten Tomatoes revenues also come from a fee it collects for each online ticket purchase.
What is the #1 movie of all time? ›
Although the nominal earnings chart is dominated by films adapted from pre-existing properties and sequels, it is headed by Avatar, which is an original work.
What does the splat mean on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
When at least 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a red tomato is displayed to indicate its Fresh status. When less than 60% of reviews for a movie or TV show are positive, a green splat is displayed to indicate its Rotten status.
What does the tomato on Peaco*ck mean? ›
Movie thumbnails may include a red-tomato, "fresh" rating but don't display a score if the movie is rated "rotten." You can see the score for any movie with a Rotten Tomatoes rating, alongside the audience score, after selecting it.
Are there any 100% shows on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Other recent series with multiple seasons in the 100% club: The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Veep, Fleabag, Jane the Virgin, and Feel Good. Only Murders in the Building season 1 has the most reviews on its perfect 100% score.
How hard is it to get 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Because it's “relatively” easy to get a 100% score after that first handful of reviews (five is the minimum count for a movie to get its Tomatometer), every film listed here has at least crossed the Certified Fresh threshold. Then we sorted them by movies with more reviews featured higher up.
What Netflix series has 100% Rotten Tomatoes score? ›
So my attention has definitely been grabbed by Supacell, a new UK series that has arrived with a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, a rarity, though there are not that many reviews in yet.
What's a good score on Rotten Tomatoes? ›
Tomatometer scores fall into 3 easy-to-understand categories: Fresh (60% and up), Rotten (59% and below), and Certified Fresh for films with more than 75% positive reviews that meet other criteria - see the criteria HERE.